RIP Johnny Pacheco

[humprof]

Flautist, bandleader, & co-founder of Fania Records:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...under-new-york-latin-label-fania-dies-aged-85
https://www.jazzwax.com/2021/02/johnny-pacheco-1935-2021.html

 

[kap'n krunch]

https://fb.watch/3LVFHwfsHk/

 

[humprof]

Journalist/filmmaker/educator Ed Morales put together a wonderful annotated playlist of Pacheco and the Fania sound for today's New York Times. Here's the link (for those with subscriptions--or who haven't exhausted their monthly allotment of free articles, I guess--although I've heard you can get around those restrictions by opening the link in an incognito window?):

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/arts/music/johnny-pacheco-fania-records-playlist.html